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Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued by Operation Understanding’s Concerned Citizens Committee for the Stella Wright Homes. Operation Understanding was an interracial community organization of suburban and urban residents founded after the 1967 rebellion to address problems in Newark. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries

Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued in June 1973 by Operation Understanding. Operation Understanding was an interracial community organization of suburban and urban residents founded after the 1967 rebellion to address problems in Newark. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries

Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued on February 1, 1973 by Operation Understanding. Operation Understanding was an interracial community organization of suburban and urban residents founded after the 1967 rebellion to address problems in Newark. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries

Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued on December 26, 1972 by Operation Understanding. Operation Understanding was an interracial community organization of suburban and urban residents founded after the 1967 rebellion to address problems in Newark. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries

Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued on December 7, 1972 by Operation Understanding. Operation Understanding was an interracial community organization of suburban and urban residents founded after the 1967 rebellion to address problems in Newark. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries

Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued on April 15, 1971 by Operation Understanding. Operation Understanding was an interracial community organization of suburban and urban residents founded after the 1967 rebellion to address problems in Newark. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries

Press release on the Stella Wright Rent Strike, issued by the Archdiocese of Newark’s Institute of Social Relations on February 6, 1974. In the release, the Institute of Social Relations demanded Mayor Ken Gibson take action to prevent the shutdown of Stella Wright Homes. — Credit: Seton Hall University Libraries

Aerial view of the construction of the Rev. William P. Hayes Homes on Belmont Avenue. Named for a Black clergyman in Newark, the project opened in the Central Ward in 1954. — Credit: Newark Public Library

An artist’s rendering of the Christopher Columbus Homes on 7th Avenue in the North Ward from 1953. The project, consisting of eight high-rise towers, was opened in 1955 and demolished in 1994. — Credit: Newark Public Library